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Survival Stats and Chris still hates Connecticut
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Welcome back! This week, after the normal Rigmarole, a talk about cars, bikes, travel, and stuff; Ron came up with a stat-sheet version of survival for both of us to fill out; Chris runs us through his trip to Massachusetts (and stupid Connecticut). As always please like, subscribe and share with your friends. Come join the discussions on the Discord Channel (https://discord.gg/TbxA7gcUky) and follow us on Twitter, @cltruitt22. Thanks and take care!
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Introduction and Wildfire Discussion
00:00:00
Speaker
Welcome back to another episode of the mythic draft podcast. I'm Chris and I'm Ron. Well today is brought to you by the letter C for stupid Canada smoke. I actually yelled at somebody on the bypass today. We're coming back from lunch and I was like, Oh look, they're from Quebec. So guy, take your smoke back with you. You know, maybe this is just revenge all the times we've smoked up Canada. Yeah.
00:00:30
Speaker
Yeah. You know, I feel bad for the people of Canada. Oh yeah. Raging wildfires. Yeah. You haven't even checked it. They have them like most of the way under control now. You know, I haven't, I haven't looked. I think they were good for a week because we had all that rain, but I don't know. But surprisingly, at least I was up in the, you know, New England and it wasn't bad up there. These just kind of settled down here.
00:00:59
Speaker
I think this is this time, it's more Westernly than it was last time. Yeah. Yeah. Turns out trees burn. Still got some going on.
Canadian Geography and Travel Aspirations
00:01:11
Speaker
Oh, my gosh. Last Friday, there were 500 active fires in Canada. It's a big country. Yeah. And it's a not, you know, populated sparsely.
00:01:26
Speaker
Now it's like dense pockets of population. Something like 80% of their population lives within 12 miles of the U.S. border or something. Wow. Oh, yes, you go too far north. There's polar bears and polar bears that there are novels. But yeah, I assume. Or, you know, Santa doesn't want you to get too close to his operation. Yeah, can't get too close to North Pole. Yeah. Yeah. Times get cold up there. Yeah.
00:01:56
Speaker
I'd like to go. I'd like to go to the Arctic. I don't think I care about going to the Antarctic, but I'd like to go up to the Arctic Circle. Really? I think that'd be a cool place to visit. You know, while we still have one. Yeah. Well, I mean, we'll always have an Arctic Circle. It's just, it'll be like Bermuda. Right. Right. Yeah. But yeah, I just think it'd be cool to, I feel like the last real wilderness in North America is north of us, I guess.
00:02:25
Speaker
I'd say if you go to Iceland, you'll be just barely south of the Arctic Circle. I've always wondered if it's Iceland. Or if you go to, oof, Skorsbissund, Greenland, you'll be in the Arctic Circle. I'm not so keen on Greenland. Because of the Danes. I just feel like it's Alfred Green. No. I feel like that was a
00:02:52
Speaker
It was a misnomer. Yeah. I've always had it. What was that? And the itch? BAFTA Bay or whatever. I'd always want to go up there. Okay. Yeah. Just be cool. That would be cool. Be a long drive. Yeah.
00:03:16
Speaker
It's like eight hours to Canada for my house.
Infrastructure and Local Issues
00:03:18
Speaker
This is probably another two hours up to the Arctic Circle. Oh, yeah, I'm sure. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, once you hit, yeah, it's straight away. Yeah. So there's a good highway right up. Oh, yeah. It's like this way to Arctic Circle. Yeah. Just head north. Yeah. Just break out your compass. Or you got that little compass in the dash of your car. Just. Yeah. Well, when my car's computer is working. Is it messing up again? Still. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. Yeah.
00:03:46
Speaker
It does good for like a month and then it just like we'll have this. It goes crazy. I don't know. Is it like some weird kind of updates it needs to do or? Maybe. I don't know how to force it to update. It's probably one of those things where they take it to the shop, you know? Is it voice control maybe? I just need to call them and say, hey, this thing's under warranty. Fix it. Maybe just the next time in your car you just need car update. Car. Do your update thing.
00:04:15
Speaker
And it's like, OK, pulling over now. Oh, that's the time of day unload five hours. Well, that's OK, because all the construction around here, I'd be stuck in traffic anyways. Is there actual construction, though? No, it's just lanes closed. It's like the threat of construction. Yeah. Yeah. There was a lot of that in Connecticut.
00:04:43
Speaker
They don't want to work too hard. Work yourself out of a job. The road that my neighborhood is off of has been under construction. And then they stopped, they finished, seemingly we're done. And then all of a sudden I went to work the other day and it's like, why is there a whole lane closed? Why are there permanent looking barriers out? I don't know what they're doing.
00:05:10
Speaker
It's one of those they had extra funding, so they're like, oh yeah, let's resurface the road. Let's see if we can annoy Ron Wismer today. Yeah. Yeah. That's what it is. That's exciting.
00:05:24
Speaker
Stoplight down from your fire station. They were actually out there with like I'm assuming some it was some kind of measuring stick or something. There's a guy in the intersection with like this 16 foot stick and another guy with a transponder looking at him. So I'm assuming they're doing something soon. Wow, that would be something. Yeah, it's only been down for six months.
00:05:50
Speaker
Well, that one, isn't that they're saying that was because they don't have the parts for the light or something? That's what they said. They don't have the parts for that style of light anymore and they can't get them anywhere. Yeah. Here's a novel concept. Put a new light in. Yep. Seems like the answer if they don't make the parts for that light. Yeah. Yeah. Well, then I listened to a city council meeting and there's apparently a bunch of these lights in the city that they don't make parts for anymore.
00:06:18
Speaker
Did you not see me by the same guy who made zoom? Yeah, there it is. There it is. But I mean, did you not see this coming? Like? Yeah. Hey, all the red lights are from the 60s. We should probably fix them. And so, yeah, you know, all our police cars are run on that, you know, leaded petrol should be around forever. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I was just my mind thinking about
00:06:46
Speaker
I did it the other day, talking about the county where I live in. So there's like 700,000 people in my county, I think. Wow. And north of the ditch is the busier part of the county. And I don't know how many high schools they are, but I was thinking about they have not replaced, they haven't put a new high school in my county.
00:07:07
Speaker
that was above the ditch since the 70s. So every building that's a high school in Newcastle County above the ditch is at least 40 years old. And there's no plans to put a new one in there. Well, hopefully, if they do plan to put one in there, they'll do like what Comico County does and base it off of current populations instead of the expected populations. Well, no, if it was when you build the school, you know,
00:07:36
Speaker
Based off today, by the time it's done in three years, it's already over capacity. If they were to do what Comico County does, they would put all three high schools directly next to each other. Duh. Duh. Doesn't that seem like the way to handle the problem? Yeah. That's why you have poor...
00:07:56
Speaker
I feel bad for these poor kids in like willards. They must ride the bus for three hours. How long is it from like west side to why high? I'm assuming is where they go. That's like a long freaking bus ride. Yeah. Yeah. It's crazy. But yeah, I just, school infrastructure not being updated in 40 years seems like a real bad plan. Yeah. Yeah. It feels like they're going to be like, we have an emergency. All of our schools are collapsing.
00:08:27
Speaker
You should probably fix this. And not only that, but like the pop, I don't know what the population is now compared to what it was 40 years ago. I'm assuming there's more people. Yeah. Assuming. Assume. Yeah. Maybe there's some secret thing they have going on that you don't want to know. That's fair. Yeah. That's why I'm not in the government. Yeah.
00:08:55
Speaker
But it's not the same. We are a much more inefficient version of the government. In some ways, yes. In every way? I wouldn't say in every way. Of course we are the most inefficient. We are one of the government agencies about inefficiency.
00:09:19
Speaker
We could be the standard of conditions. So you have Salisbury, Maryland in the middle of Lake Comico County. The only three staff stations in the whole county are all within a mile of each other. That doesn't make sense. We built a new station that's next to two other stations. Yeah.
00:09:47
Speaker
and is in the least populous part of the city. How much did that station cost us? It was free, right? Oh yeah, it was. Yeah. Yeah, the alderman's and people paid for it years ago. Remember when we paid a company to tell us what the fire department should look like in 15 years? And then we did none of those things. Yeah.
00:10:14
Speaker
We made paper airplanes out of those. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
DC Movies and Comic Book Discussions
00:10:22
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Hey, remember when a company approached us and said, we will give you land? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We will give you land. All you have to do is put a pole building up and you have a fire station here. Yeah. No, we don't want a pole building. We got something nicer than that. Yeah.
00:10:43
Speaker
Meanwhile, the people who actually ride the pieces are like, I don't care what you put us in. Right. It's also got a bathroom, a kitchen, and punks were good. In my trips to the Northeast last week, surprisingly, the engines and trucks that's all riding around Boston, they weren't all shiny.
00:11:06
Speaker
parade pieces going down the road. It looked like they were designed to work. Yeah, I had a conversation with the chief at work the other day and I said, so when are we going to actually address the fact that the busiest station in our department has an engine that's 15 years old? Well, we're working on that.
00:11:34
Speaker
And then a different chief said, it's weird. You guys' engine breaks down a lot. Hmm. I think that is. Well, part of it also is, I mean, that mechanic shop we use, I mean, they are like turn things around so quickly and troubleshoot. And, you know, they're just on top of it. It's almost like you shouldn't buy into a monopoly.
00:11:58
Speaker
Almost. Yeah. So I would say, yeah, we have some inefficiencies. Maybe we shouldn't throw stones. Yeah. So happier tones. Have you seen Indiana Jones and the last crew seat? I don't know what it is. Dial of destiny. Dial of destiny. I have not. I have not either. I did see the flash.
00:12:24
Speaker
You saw the flash. I did. And you felt it was. That sounds like a review right there. No, it was fun. It was more fun than I've had in a DC movie in a very long time. I don't know that I exactly love the way they interpreted the whole Flashpoint thing. But it wasn't. Dark and brooding and
00:12:53
Speaker
the whole time. But it's also, you know, it's hard to look at it and say, well, you know, because this makes sense when DC is the one to control or delete right now. So this movie doesn't tie to anything, doesn't lead to anything. The Flashverse confuses me. Because seemingly everybody in the Flashverse is the fastest person in the universe. There seems to be
00:13:21
Speaker
To me, I'm looking on the outside. There's 12 people who claim to be the fastest person in the universe. Yeah, there's there's quite a few speedsters. And one of them has a drug that makes them faster. Oh, yeah. Yeah. This is already the fastest person in the universe. Yeah. So fast. Well, that universe, not the multiverse. Yeah, I will say there were some fun cameos in the movie. I mean, I laughed at some spots and everything, but yeah.
00:13:49
Speaker
He said it was more fun than the DC movie's been in a while. It definitely. Yeah, if this had been like the first, I think it would have been a good stepping stone for DC. But sure. Suicide Squad was OK. The second one. Yeah. Yeah. The second one. Yeah. First. First one was terrible. Yeah. First one was an abomination. Yeah. Yeah, it's yeah.
00:14:18
Speaker
Yep. And now what's it? Secret Wars or Secret Evasions out? Yeah, and I'm not sure I care. It is. They should have renamed it Fury. Sure. Because it's just about Nick Fury. Right. We've watched the first two episodes. I mean, it's not bad, but it's like. Well, part of it is and the guy should have never said it. The director was like, Oh, yeah, we're not. We never read the comic or anything. This is our own, you know, it's like.
00:14:48
Speaker
Why would you do that? Right. Even if you're going to do that, don't say that. Right. Because, you know, the fans are just going to go get up in arms. Yeah, that's the. And that's the other thing. Then don't call it secret invasion. Call it, you know. Fury's day trip. I don't know. Whatever you call it. Fury and the green guys. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We're talking about last night, actually.
00:15:16
Speaker
I haven't really watched any of the Marvel TV shows, because my buddy brought up Moon Knight. Rain will be talking about Daisy Ridley and the guy who played Finn. What is his name? I can see him. I can see him too. We were talking about how they basically have not had real careers in Star Wars, whereas the guy who played Poe is everywhere.
00:15:46
Speaker
He was like, oh yeah, he was in Moon Knight. I was like, oh yeah, I forgot about that. He was also in Dune and all these other things. And now Daisy Ridley is coming back to do a Disney movie after saying she would never work for Star Wars again. I was like, oh, did she realize that Star Wars is a cash cow and you need a job? John Boyega. John Boyega, yeah. He was in Pacific Rim too. Oh, God.
00:16:12
Speaker
Pacific Rim wasn't very good in the first place for them to was awful. Yes, it was. Oh, yeah. Well, you just said his name and I can't think and now I can't think of it. He played moon knight. Oscar Oscar Oscar. That's good. Yeah. Yeah. So he's played three Marvel characters now. Because he was apocalypse in that horrible X-Men movie apocalypse of that movie, he was.
00:16:42
Speaker
He was Moon Knight, and now he also voiced Spider-Man 2099 in the Spider-Verse movie. Yep. That's a fun fact. Yeah, so he's, yeah, now three people. Well, the good news is nobody would have known he was Apocalypse. Oh my gosh, that was so bad. Well, Josh Brolin's been two. Yeah. Right? Yep. He's Thanos and Cable. I never really liked Cable in the comics.
00:17:11
Speaker
If that was a very- He's a whack job in the comics. Yeah, it's a very convoluted storyline. It's weird. The whole X-Force thing was weird. X-Force. Yeah. X-Force. Yeah, Cables X-Force. Yeah, yeah. I always thought X-Force was a little... It was like a leap too far.
00:17:35
Speaker
Yeah. It was a, it really was this weird time in comics where like the summer family, you know, Scott and his brother Alex were like this, you know, this like bloodline of destiny. Oh yeah. We're like, everybody was related to them somehow. It was real weird. Yeah. Cause well, cables, Nate summers. Yeah. And then there's hope summers. That's Cyclops.
00:18:05
Speaker
and Jean Grey's clones kid or something. Well, then her dad is the Corsair. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's. Yeah. And now X-Force in the comics is like the secret service of the mutants, like the black ops people run by Beast, who is not a nice guy anymore.
00:18:34
Speaker
It's been 60 years. Yeah. He had a good run. Yeah. I mean, XO was fun. X-Force was a little weird. X-Factor gets weirder. Yeah. Because that's when you had. You had like Havoc and Polaris. Yeah, but who's the bad guy in X-Factor? The original bad guy. The original bad guy in X-Factor. Sinister? Yeah, that guy. Yeah.
00:19:05
Speaker
Who is also a summers or something, isn't he? Something like that. He's somehow related to the whole thing. Scott needs to keep it in his pants. That clearly was really his dad's fault. Yeah. Plus he kicked his kids out of a burning plane. What?
00:19:26
Speaker
That's the whole backstory is they were. Oh, you know, you're talking about the stupid singer movie. No, I'll talk about the comic books. Oh, the backstory is that they were shot down. Scott was Scott and Alex were shot down by some in some plane. I swear I'm not making this up. That does sound right now.
00:19:52
Speaker
I mean, Scott Summers shot down with... I suppose havoc, right? Yeah. Why would his dad just throw him out the...
00:20:12
Speaker
Yeah, his father was Christopher Summers, flying him, his wife and his two kids in their private Havilland Mosquito. And they were attacked by a starship from the Shayar Empire. Oh, damn Shayar. Damn Shayar. They only had one parachute, they put it on Scott and told him to hold on to Alex and then push him out the plane door.
00:20:44
Speaker
OK. You put a lot of faith in your kids ability to hold on to one another. Yeah, that's true. Between wind shear and that that sudden uptake of a parachute. Maybe try to like wedge them both into the harness, like put him in front of him like a little baby Bjorn.
00:21:05
Speaker
And that's when they formed the star jammers. Oh, yeah. Because the Corsair had like the gems on his arm, so he would like slap and have pistols or something. Sure. And then somehow I sort of remember Professor X was like dating a chiar chick. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Like she had that weird hair.
00:21:34
Speaker
There's like a flat like. I don't know, like a you on top of her head almost like a little segment. Yeah. And then, yeah, because that tied all into because they were being threatened by the brood. And those weird alien things were taking over everything. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, because that's how the X-Men had all the. They had all the technology because of the shear and.
00:22:03
Speaker
Professor X getting naughty with him. Yep. Yeah. Rachel Summers. Yeah, she is. I can't remember her name. It's like Dawnstar or something weird like that. She's a psychic and. She's in the Phoenix horse. Well, yeah, of course. She's the.
00:22:30
Speaker
I must have misspelled that because this is saying that she's an author of lesbian fiction. Oh, for you, Rachel. Daughter of the alternate future counterparts of Cyclops and Jean Grey Summers. Okay. From the days of future past timeline. Falcon? Gabriel Summers? Too many summers. Yeah, there's a lot of summers.
00:23:01
Speaker
Yeah, that's the thing. Some things with comics, it's like that. Don't try to explain to me how the sausage is made. So actually, I recently watched Invincible. That's pretty good. Invincible, the cartoon on Prime. Oh, that's going to get it's it's written by the same guy who wrote The Walking Dead. Yeah, I heard that. Yeah.
00:23:26
Speaker
I mean, it's good voice acting. It's it's definitely violent, but yeah, yeah, it's pretty good. And I like it because, you know, like my oldest and I watched it and, you know, neither one of us know anything about it. We haven't read the comics or books or anything. So it's just like no idea. So that's fun.
00:23:51
Speaker
I'm sorry, I'm not on a deep dive on. Oh, that's a dangerous thing, man. I know this is going to screw you up like the time travel or time paradoxes screwed me up. Well, then we found out that the earth might be in a black hole. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I was watching something the other night, you know, like my wife came home and I had she's like, are you watching another one? I was like, I did stop. I stopped it.
00:24:19
Speaker
They're saying all we got to do is figure out the quantum mechanics of time. Then we would be. Yeah. Yeah. We got to figure out how gravity works in the quantum field or something like that. So I test my daughter with it has to figure it out. Good job. Yeah. Yeah. To say, hey, you fix this. So the whole time travel thing, the whole 10 o'clock,
00:24:47
Speaker
figured it out. I've got a code word now. Well, don't tell anybody. That's why I say I can't. Yeah. But if that happens, I have a code word. And if the other me knows it, then I know it's me. But if not, then I don't know what's going to happen. It's an imposter you. Yeah, that could be that's a real problem. Oh, gosh. Yeah, it's not real. No problem.
00:25:16
Speaker
Oh, let's get Ramble.
RPG Skills in an Apocalypse
00:25:18
Speaker
Yeah, we got went off on a Scott Summers rant. So I think we're going to move to topic one. Topic one. So this is light hearted and fun. Don't get angry. OK. This is your first job. I was I've been playing a lot of Seven Days Die, which is one of my favorite computer games. OK. And I was thinking about it. If you and I were characters in the apocalypse,
00:25:46
Speaker
What would our RPG skill tree look like? Oh, yeah. So I came up with some skills and you're going to give me a rating of where you think you're at on that skill tree. It's one to five. I was going to, you know, make you give me stats for yourself. I really want you to have to, you know, do that. OK. So. Hmm. And this is apocalyptic like Mad Max.
00:26:16
Speaker
Whatever apocalypse he wants to have for yourself. Oh, oh, yeah. Apocalypse du jour. Yeah. Okay. Uh, but you know, taking the stats of you yourself right now, where you think you are in those.
00:26:31
Speaker
you know, those little groups. So if you were to make a skill check, you would be using your stats. So first one, um, that I came up with should be easy for both of us. First aid, and remember it's a scale of one to five. So when I thought about this, here's how I look at it. If you have a one, you basically know nothing about it. If you have a five, you are a world renowned expert in that thing.
00:27:02
Speaker
So first aid, they give us a four, four. Okay. I'm just going to give myself a three and first aid. I figure I'm better than average and, but I'm not willing to do field surgery. So I'd get in there. You'd get in there. Yeah. Yeah. I was thinking about that. When I think about first thing, I was like, a paramedics really good to have in most scenarios, except that.
00:27:30
Speaker
Your long-term care isn't great. Yeah. Yeah. Short-term. Yeah. It's good deal. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'll get you patched up and everything. And then the next day we're like, Oh, it still hurts. I'm like, I don't know what to do. They're there. Bite down on this stick. Right. Well, you know, I figured also as a paramedic, I have, I can find pills.
00:27:53
Speaker
in pharmacies and kind of know what they're for. Yeah. At least I can look things up. I got a general knowledge. That's why I gave myself a three. Yeah. Yeah. I can figure it out. All right. It sounds like a psylline, so this is some kind of antibiotic. A psylline of some sort. Yeah. Survival. This is not your ability to shrug off damage. This is your ability to create campsites and find water and
00:28:19
Speaker
Do you have a pot with a lid? You have a pot with a lid. I mean, it was a boy scout. Five. Say hi to low three. OK, I'm going to give you a two. Yeah, I'll give myself a four.
00:28:46
Speaker
Wow. Because I feel like I was a Boy Scout. Yeah. Camped a lot. Hey, once a Boy Scout, always a Boy Scout. Always a Boy Scout, always prepared. I watch a lot of videos on survival in Bushcraft. You do. So I'm very invested in that world. So I have better knowledge than most people is what I looked at. Yeah. But I'm not Bear Grylls. No, no, I don't think anyone is. Fishing. Fishing? Yep.
00:29:15
Speaker
This is not fishing for sport. This is fishing for survival. For survival. Yeah. I gave myself a four. I grew up fishing. I fished all the time. I haven't known a while, but yeah. I actually thought you would get a higher than a four, but you know. No, I don't know. I don't know how to like whisper to the fish. I gave myself a two. Like I remember the basics of how to fish and I have been fishing before, but I don't feel like I have
00:29:42
Speaker
Like people talk about, Oh, you use this lower for this way. So I would have no idea. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You got to use a fuzzy nit wig to get a rainbow trout and a purple squirter to get a. Then we have cooking. Very important skill that you don't think about in survival situations.
00:30:08
Speaker
I see I want to go kind of mid to high on this because I can cook pretty well, but. Open flame out in the wild cooking is totally different.
00:30:21
Speaker
Because, I mean, post-apocalypse, I don't think I'm going to have, you know, my nice four burner stove and oven to work with. I don't think you're going to have a nice quarter of an oven, and you're not going to have a refrigerator. No. Full of ingredients. Yeah. Three. I also went with three for myself. Figuring, I'm a good cook. I know how to cook. I know the basics of cooking. I do cook over fires. But yeah, same thing. I'm not going to have a meat thermometer.
00:30:50
Speaker
You know, you kind of have to be guessing. Smithing, a very important skill. Post-apocalypse. Smithing. Yeah. Now, this is the act of creating tools you need out of raw materials. Yeah. I mean, if I...
00:31:19
Speaker
If there's like a lump of iron. I can. Yeah, I can make something, but if it would be like, you know, oh, you've got this pig iron and you've got to smelt it down and do I see that I'm not good at. Two. I think a two is generous. I gave myself a one. Yeah, I feel like I have been something I have a friend who does blacksmithing. I would not be able to build my own forge. I would not be able to.
00:31:47
Speaker
I just wouldn't be like, all right, I got to make a fork. I'll just, you know, would I don't know. I wouldn't be able to do it. Yeah. Hunting. This is hunting for food again. Yeah. I know we're not hunting for sports in the apocalypse. No. We're hunting for deals. And you're going to have to make
00:32:18
Speaker
You're stuff to hunt with. Oh, yeah, this is this covers making traps. This is if if the DM said you need to make a rabbit snare. Yeah, what's your skill of that? You know, once you're on an ammo, are you able to make arrows? Can you use a bow and arrow? Yeah, I can.
00:32:42
Speaker
Uh oh, trouble afoot. I give myself a three. I can make a bow and arrow if I need to. I can make minor snares and deadfalls.
00:32:57
Speaker
Yeah, game is a whole one. I would be totally useless. The problem is I don't want to anymore. That's fair. I, I was talking to my wife about that. I was like, I don't know if I've gotten softer in my years or what, but like the thought of hunting doesn't appeal to me anymore. That's I don't. Very fair. I don't need to kill something. Yeah. Athletics, this is your general check.
00:33:26
Speaker
for not stumbling when running through the woods, moving across waterways, general athletics. General athletics. Yes. So I'm going to look at this like when we used to run the savage races. It was middle of the pack. I'd say a three. I wasn't at the lead. I wasn't at the tail end. I could make it through most of the stuff. I feel like I could still do that.
00:33:57
Speaker
when pressed. I gave myself a two. I feel like on long distance travel, bike riding and hiking, I'm really good. I can even, well, size my shoulder, I can climb. I am good at climbing rocks and that kind of things, but I still got to give myself two. I don't feel like I'm high enough on the pack of that. I would think you're a three. I appreciate that.
00:34:23
Speaker
A foraging. This is the ability to forage for food and know if that food is poisonous or not. And there was a time I could almost give myself a five, I'm sure. Wow. But I would say now I'm a strong three.
Mechanical Skills and Apocalypse Logistics
00:34:43
Speaker
Well, all right. Yeah, I give myself a one.
00:34:47
Speaker
Really? No. Yeah. I don't know that I could identify mushrooms versus ones that are going to kill you or it's not. Just avoid them. Well, I can avoid all mushrooms. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, see, I've gotten lazy now. I've got an app on my phone that you just scan it and it tells you exactly what it is you're looking at. Yeah, you're not going to have that. I know. That's the thing. I've got lazy. Yeah. So if I brought my mother with me, it would easily be a five. That woman can look at a plant and know
00:35:17
Speaker
everything about it. All right, we had down to our last four that I have to take any categories just after this mechanical repair. Now, there are two ways to think about mechanical repair. Obviously, we all know. There are two modes of transport that are great for the apocalypse, horses and bicycles. Yeah. Right. Yeah. But if you if you can keep a car running,
00:35:47
Speaker
for as long as possible. That is a high advantage. It is in the apocalypse. So when I'm looking at my mechanical pair, I kind of think it's kind of split into two, but. You've come up with your own number. Yeah, because my problem is, you know, I'd be like, yeah, you know, I can tinker on a car, but then if it's like an Apache helicopter, I'm like, I see. Yeah. Yeah. Should you check this plug wires? The carburetor good. Yeah.
00:36:16
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Oh, it sounds like it's got a valve tap. It's not even running. I know you can hear it. Um, try it too. So I gave myself a three and my justification is you know a lot about bike repair. I know a lot about bike repair. I can I might not be able to service every bike, but I'll get your bike running. I get that bike working to use. Right. You know, it's not going to be tuned up for racing. Yeah. And I can keep
00:36:45
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I have a general knowledge of cars enough to keep a car running for a little while. Yeah. But I think I can keep a bike running indefinitely. Right. And I could also replace parts on bikes. Yeah. That's important. Yeah. I mean, I can show a horse. That's important to know, too. Ferrying could have been a skill I put on here. Yeah. Didn't put it. I mean, it's kind of blacksmithing kind of this repair. Yeah. Yeah. Animal handling check. This is going to be an important one to woodworking.
00:37:16
Speaker
When we can't Smith because we're both retarded, we don't know how to work forges. We're going to have to know how to woodwork. Yeah. Building shelters. Yep. Building just carving, you know, utensils you need. Yeah. Woodworking is going to be very important. At four. Four. Yeah. Wow. I watch a lot of videos about like people making
00:37:44
Speaker
log cabins by hand and stuff like that. And you look at that and say, I could do that. Yeah. So I watch those videos and say, I have no chance of doing that. Just V things out, measure. Yeah. I watch videos of woodworkers and I'm like, oh, of course you just use a dovetail. And then they're like, did you do this joint? And I'm like, I don't know which joint to use. Well, man, joinery is so much fun. It is kind of fun to watch. Yeah. I gave myself a two. Yeah.
00:38:11
Speaker
Because I do know what joints are. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I I give myself a fork. I mean, I know I built my own deck. I built the shed. Yeah. And yes, I didn't have power tools for those. But, you know, but that's the principles are the same. You would know it would just require more effort. Oh, yeah. You know how to do it. The effort would suck. And when I took shop class eons ago in high school,
00:38:38
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I remember our first year, we weren't allowed to use any power tools, so anything we made had to be made by hand. And it was to prove that you could work with the wood the right way. So, yeah. You know, you had to like label all the different tools and the difference between a pool saw and a, you know, crawl saw and. Yeah. Yeah, you got me there. I don't know if there's another. I would just say that's a saw. That's a saw.
00:39:08
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This is important. Research. This is the ability to go and figure out. I mean, libraries are still going to exist or books are still going to exist. To find information, cross-check that information, compile useful information for you to use. Gosh, the Dewey Decimal System back in action. Yeah. You're not going to be able to just Google search things. Yours is not going to be, you know, Google.
00:39:37
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God, they'll have like some Funkin Wagnall encyclopedia from the 80s. God. Can I say in there something stupid? Yeah. Let's say a four. I can't research. I gave myself a five. You should easily get a five. This is what I went to college for. Yeah. This is what I do on for funsies. You know, this is like.
00:40:04
Speaker
This is my jam. Yeah. Say, hey, go sit in the library. We're going to go build a shelter. That's I'm your guy. There you go. Yeah. Yeah. I'll build the shelter. You do the research. Now, this one, I think you and I will score well, but I think a lot of people would poorly on map reading. Oh, there's not going to be GPS anymore. No, there's not. Yeah. You're going to have to figure out how to get from point A to point B because once you have to factor in topography and all that kind of stuff.
00:40:33
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Just not just a straight line. Topographical maps are a real thing that you need to understand. Yeah. Yeah. There's a little weird curvy lines mean things. Definitely. I give myself a four again.
00:40:47
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Yeah, I gave myself four as well. I feel like, well, first off, we grew up in the fire service in a time when you had to read maps. Yeah. We're very familiar with maps. I use maps all the time. Yeah. I keep, I still keep hard copy maps in my house just because I know that eventually I'll need them if the road goes to shit. Yeah. Yeah. I just see you having like this stack of parchment tubes beside your desk.
00:41:14
Speaker
I need to update this map of Kent County. I do have, I do have an Atlas. I keep an Atlas, a road Atlas. Very useful. It's not super useful anymore, but you know, something went wrong. Major roads still there. Yeah. So that is my 12 stats.
00:41:38
Speaker
for the apocalypse those are pretty good that if we were to be characters now the side note to this unless you had anyone to add i can't think anything else up my head okay side note to this as it's looking at your 12 so
00:41:53
Speaker
Obviously, we both have a weakness in smithing. Yeah. Your lowest numbers are smithing and survival. Yeah. And yeah, that's it. Pretty average everywhere else. Now you have to think about as a character, where do I need to level up? Clearly, one of us has to become the smith and one of us has to become better at... Well, I mean, you're all about the food. I would...
00:42:22
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I would take the smithing. Yeah. Because, I mean, I helped our farrier at times. I feel like I'd have to up my fishing game because, you know, can't just have one person being charged fishing and hunting. It's not going to work out for us as a group, as a party. Yeah. Breaking down fish. Oh, man. I'm probably not good at that either. If you make the right cut, you can just
00:42:52
Speaker
rip it all out in one go. Yeah. As soon as you told me to take the asphalt out of a deer, I'd be in trouble. And I think I'd have to as I'd have to level up my mechanical repair. Yeah. That would probably be my biggest thing I'd have to work on is make sure that my repair mechanical repair skills get are better. Yeah. And then I have the tools to do so. Yeah. And I would need a Smith to make the tools for it. Yeah. You can just go down to the harbor freight.
00:43:21
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Can't just get out of the harbor frame. That's not going to happen. That's where people are going to raid first. That's where. Yeah. Well, not really. Yeah. That was it. That's not going to be a lot of good unless you can, you know, make new bullets and new shells. And once you add a gunpowder. Yeah. Then you got to do some research, figure out how you make gunpowder. Yeah, you got to figure. I look at the apocalypse like this. Is it like coal and salt, Peter and sulfur or something?
00:43:52
Speaker
Yes That's some of it nitrate. It's like a some sort of nitrate You need carbon. Yeah, and then I think the salt Peter is a Causing the reactions like a cattle. Yeah But it's been a hot minute since I had them I actually did make up I don't want to come Wow But you know if you think about the apocalypse a real apocalypse a real So it's like they're not gonna be like all these gun nuts like oh, there's gonna be all kinds of guns there were people gonna shoot those guns
00:44:21
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Very early on in the event. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Maybe just ammo laying around everywhere. That's because they see these movies and these shows and they're always stumbling across these caches of munitions. Medicine is going to be the big. Yeah. That's going to be the big one. Which is tied into a dentistry.
00:44:44
Speaker
Dentistry. Oh, my God. You know, always freaked me out about that. And I thought was one of the best representations that was the movie Castaway. Oh, did he rip out his own tooth? Just a bash out his own tooth. Yeah. Yeah. Which, by the way, would totally get it. And he would have died on that island. Yeah. He took up an ice skate and bashed his own tooth out. Yeah. Yeah. That's sterile. Yeah, I'm sure. Yeah. I'm sure it's precise.
00:45:14
Speaker
Yeah. Well, that is my RPG survival skills and rated ourselves. Yeah. We are ready to go. Can I go make my own bow and arrow? Work on our field craft. Yeah. Well, you have to make like, if I have learned anything, you have to make like a hundred bows and arrows. You have to make a bow, break it down, make another bow. Just keep doing that until you're really good at it.
00:45:44
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's how games work. Yes. We do those crazy double bows that pull against each other to like. Double double strength. Yeah, it's it's a way I can't remember what the name of the bow is itself, but it looks like a standard recurve bow with a smaller version of it flipped around in front and you attach the tips
00:46:14
Speaker
like top bottom to bottom, top to top, and then you do your regular string. So when you pull, it's like pulling against a bow against a bow and it increases the draw weight and also you don't just have to you can you can make a stronger bow out of a weaker wood. Yeah, I've basically never used a bow in my life. So I've got one six feet away from me right now.
00:46:40
Speaker
Yeah, I've never, I remember once as a kid, my neighbor had one, I tried to shoot at one time in his backyard and the arrow fell out and I was like, I'm good. I don't think I've ever had to fire a bow ever since. Yeah, so I would be terrible at bow hunting. Yeah, yeah. That's, I watch archery stuff also. Oh, that's fun. Yeah, it's amazing some of these shots people can do.
00:47:17
Speaker
Well, topic two. Sure, topic two. I was going to talk about my little trip to New England. Oh, yes. Have you buried the hatchet and did the feud? No, if anything, the feud is worse.
00:47:33
Speaker
Feud is stronger than ever was. It is.
Connecticut Trip Experiences
00:47:36
Speaker
It is. I was getting texts going, Oh, this isn't getting better. Yeah. Yeah, it wasn't. So we, uh, and we flew into Boston and boy, we are tired. Yeah. Uh, picked up our rental car and then drove down to Connecticut and the drive was fine through Massachusetts. And then we hit Connecticut.
00:47:59
Speaker
And we see all of these construction ahead and all these ways alerts and this and that. And one thing people of Connecticut, do you just abandon your vehicles on the side of the road? Because there were so many caution vehicle on side of road ahead, and they were always there. It was seriously like you couldn't go a mile without seeing a car on the side of the road. Well, OK. All right. It went through all those quote unquote construction areas. Never saw a bit of construction, never.
00:48:29
Speaker
so uh and asked my sister and brother-in-law about it and yeah his response was yeah that's connecticut i was like okay i was like and yeah my sister was like yeah they always say there's construction but it's never there he's like yeah yes and yeah and
00:48:49
Speaker
It was by the time we got to their house, I was like, screw Connecticut. He's like, and rightfully so. No one wants to go to Connecticut. I said, see, see, it's a known thing that they live in Connecticut. No, they live in Mass of Western Mass. Yeah, they live in Air Mass, which is like 30 minutes west of Boston. Gotcha. So yeah, so we get into Waterbury, Connecticut, which my brother pointed out, I never even looked for the Waterbury Country Club where
00:49:19
Speaker
Happy Gilmore played his first round. Oh, the water very open. Yeah. Yeah. Didn't even think to live about that. But, you know, we go in and I was like, well, this looks like a delightful little slum. It was not great. Got our hotel room. Checked in like, OK, let's find dinner. So we were like, you know, there's Italian joint can't go wrong with Italian. Yeah, you can.
00:49:47
Speaker
On the way there, there's like all these like old factories, they busted out windows and everything. I was like, this is this place is just beaten up. And at first, my wife had wanted to walk. I said, I'm glad we didn't walk. So we got to the Italian joint and it was more Mediterranean Italian than like that, like Italian, I think of.
00:50:14
Speaker
Which is fine, but, you know, so but something in that dinner did not sit well with me because I spent starting at midnight 10 hours after that on and out of the bathroom. So it's like, OK, this is, you know, again, you're poisoning me. Connecticut way to go. So we went to the wedding. Delightful ceremony. If you're a Catholic, I guess I didn't agree with the whole
00:50:41
Speaker
Women are subservient, and you must obey the man, and it's all about the man. Yeah, that's rough. Lots of stand up, sit down, kneel. The stand up, sit down, kneel is what gets me. Yeah. Well, they have little flip down, kneeling posts. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I read in the one part, it said you were supposed to shake hands for the Lord or something. I misunderstood that. And when it came to that point, I did jazz hands.
00:51:10
Speaker
You're supposed to turn to your neighbor and shake their hand. So I got a couple stairs. That's awesome. Yeah. Um, yeah. Uh, I mean, I was blown away by the decadence of the church and I'm like in the church. So this would be all about taking care of people and whatever. Yeah. But this could end dangerous waters. I know. Yeah, it is. So weddings over.
00:51:40
Speaker
And in the I'm going to I'm going to run this one by you if it says service is at such and it was like the chapel of immaculate conception or something reception to follow at XYZ Country Club. Sure. What time would you think that reception was? I mean, an hour later. Damn you. We saw reception to follow. So we went right over there. Oh, service was over at three. Sure. They're like three thirty.
00:52:10
Speaker
Yeah. And they had this tent outside and everything. I'm like, okay. I walk up and the guy's like, oh no, no, you can't be here. It's like, we're here for the reception. Hey, you gotta go through the bar. It's like, okay, whatever. So we go in through the bar and the girl's like, you can't go out there. I was like, what do you mean? She's like, we're not seating anybody till four 30. It's like four 30. And of course only the Marylanders who I guess didn't get the note, you know, we're there. Everybody else knew that there was a delay so that,
00:52:37
Speaker
I made friends with the bartender, nice young lady. I said, can we just get a couple drinks? She's like, oh, the open bar. I was like, I will pay you money. Just give me a beer. So we got that. We sat there and then the reception was it was nice. The kids danced. Everybody had a good time. We watched drunken people act like idiots.
00:52:57
Speaker
So the next morning. I would say my experience at big church weddings like that is usually it's about an hour between that and the reception. You've got to figure the party's got to get, you know, they got to pack all the stuff up. They got to move over to the, get the limo. It's, it's a thing. Yeah. You know, I have a friend who had a wedding. We thought that's what they were doing. They were looking out for people and giving them a one hour open bar.
00:53:26
Speaker
I had a friend who did that, and that was a mistake. Yeah. So the next day, we packed up from Connecticut, hit the road, and headed to spend some time with my sister and my brother-in-law in Ayr. So one,
00:53:48
Speaker
I mentioned that at dinner time. I was like, but we're just sitting there. I was like, by the way, buddy of mine always refers to you as Thor. My sister like grabs her husband by the arm. It's like, oh, you can be Thor. I was like, Jesus, God. Ruined. But I will say in between like we were running here showing us stuff and this and that, and we were trying to figure out what we were going to do for dinner. So we went back to their little house for a while.
00:54:17
Speaker
And there was a storm front coming in. I swear to you, he was in he had gone back to his office or something. He's like, I got to check on something. He came out of the hallway. The thunder cracked. And he said, Have we decided on dinner yet? It was like perfect timing. I was like, Jesus, he is the war. But now we are. My sister took us to a there's a little castle near them.
00:54:47
Speaker
that, like, I guess they had started to build and then they abandoned eons ago and everything is really neat. It's cool. Yeah. Hiked there, hiked around some other places. There's so many trails and stuff for them to ride. It's amazing up there. She took us. They had this lovely. That's everywhere but the Eastern Shore. Yeah, I know. This lovely little Italian joint in downtown Groton, Massachusetts, like family run. There's like it was like a little
00:55:16
Speaker
like look like a delicatessen almost like you know the window there and the estimate of pasties and stuff out and everything you ordered your stuff and then there's some guy in the back making it bring it right to you and yeah it was just phenomenal and uh they took us to uh or yeah that was it we're like you know when we're trying to when helgi came out it's like you know have you figured out dinner yeah my sister was like oh we should go to tits i was like i'm sorry what it's this place called tavern in the square it was a nice place it was like a
00:55:46
Speaker
Nice, not chain version of like a. Green turtle pub style place. Sure. So nice. Yep. Yep. So we went there, you know, and everything and, you know, said bye to them. Headed off to Boston, walked around Boston. We ubered in the first morning just because we didn't know exactly how far and where we want to go in the space of rain.
00:56:15
Speaker
So but we started out or I'm sorry, before we went to Boston, we did stop and walk around Harvard. Oh, yeah, that was intimidating. Goodly God. Yeah. And we went to the oh my gosh, they had all these like like bookstores and it was like the first the first floor was like all new stuff. And then the bottom was like trades and, you know, like old books and, you know, you would have loved it. It sounds amazing to me. Yeah. Yeah.
00:56:41
Speaker
We spent like a half hour there easily just looking around and looking at stuff and every time I've been like okay trips to you now Yeah, but we've saw a lot of stores like that See it then we uh, yeah, we got into Boston we stayed near the harbor But yeah, well, I mean walked around we started at Finoulli Hall or Fenul Fenul Fenul Hall
00:57:05
Speaker
Sure. I know. I know. I don't know how to say it. I know how to spell it, but. Yeah. F.E.N. UEL or whatever. Yeah. Yep. Yep. I mean, you know, solid statues, the same atoms and all kinds of stuff. And, you know, there's all this like historic stuff, you know, like Sarah, not like, oh, isn't this neat? The kids are like, OK, whatever. But yeah, I will say that walking around that town, I know like Salisbury tries to be something. Salisbury is nothing. Salisbury is a shithole.
00:57:34
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I well, it took me this to realize this, I guess. So I was like, oh, yes, all stories, the city. No, no, no, no, no. Boston is nice. It's well, one of the drivers there are insane. They are. They are insane. Oh, oh, oh. And that was stupid. Uber the first day because there were four of us. So I would always do you mind if I sit up front? Oh, yeah, no, no. Yeah. And I know one guy, the
00:58:02
Speaker
first day into Boston, I get up and I'm like, I feel weird. I put my hand. I was like, my hand is wet. The guy had spilled coffee in the seat. Oh, so I look like I had shat my pants. So at first answer is like, Oh God, you want to, you know, I was like, maybe we'll find a place to buy short. Eventually I was like, you know what? Screw it. I'm a tourist. Nobody knows me here. If they think I pooped my pants, I will. Right. So that's very, that's very grown up of you. Yeah. Um,
00:58:26
Speaker
But yeah, I mean, we, you know, it's all kinds of stuff. Like I said, the harbor, they had like there were street performers. They have these little parks all around that aren't like, you know, full of syringes and things. Not a lot of homeless people. We saw a few. Yeah, sure. But not as many. I felt like it wasn't as many. I will say the right concentrated in Salisbury. Yeah. So weed is legal there. Yes. Barely smelled it.
00:58:55
Speaker
Wow. Yes. And Sarah and I both comment on this. We're like, this is this is refreshing because like there were these signs. It was like, oh, gosh, what it was. It was like. We vibe dot com or something. It was like you do you will supply the weed or something. It's like this website. They'll deliver weed to your house. Thanks. Yeah.
00:59:16
Speaker
Yeah, going around everything, seeing all this stuff. And of course, you know, there's all the touristy stuff like the duck boats and all that. And which, oh, my gosh, it's like 60 bucks a person to ride that duck boat tour. Yeah. Yeah. It's also, you know, tours walking around. We went to the New England Aquarium. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It was penguin feeding time when we walked in. It was perfect. Yeah. Yeah.
00:59:44
Speaker
So in another thing that Salisbury really wants to do something, step it up and get a little Italy. We we went to little Italy and because we're trying to forget dinner the last night and like, you know, let's find an Italian joint and that has gluten free pasta for my youngest. So we're looking on like this place. They say they can do any pasta gluten free.
01:00:05
Speaker
And my wife was like, what's the name of it? I was like, it's La Familia Giorgio. I was like, and it's in Little Italy. So, yeah. And she's like, are you sure it's Little Italy? And then as we're Ubering in, because we had walked like nine miles that day, we're like, we're not walking anymore. Sure. So we're walking and it's like everything is an Italian name. And I was like, yes, we are in Little Italy.
01:00:28
Speaker
This place was amazing. It was a family style Italian restaurant. They were packed and rightfully so because they made the best. It was it was good food. It was good service. They were super nice. And I was stuffed after eating and I was like, I bet they have really good cannoli. So I was like, let's get a couple of cannolis to go. Best cannoli I've ever had. And yeah, yeah. So, you know, it's weird, I would say
01:00:58
Speaker
I want a whole, every time I go to New England, the food is always great. And you just struck me something that I just had never thought of until just now. Every city has neighborhoods. Salisbury has no neighborhoods. No, it doesn't. It has the stabby neighborhoods. Sure, but Wilmington, we have Little Italy, we've got Polish town, we've got Brown town, we've got all these little enclaves of neighborhoods that all have their own vibe.
01:01:25
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You don't have that in Salisbury. I never thought about that. Yeah. And I mean, it's even on like, you know, you looked at the map of Boston and it's like, Oh, here's Chinatown. Here's a little bit of places like that. It's a creek. Yeah. Yeah. Trust me. If we had more time, it would have gone to Chinatown. It would have gone to, you know, I'm sure they have a Polish section. Yeah. Chicago's like that too. Chinatown, Chicago. I just love
01:01:47
Speaker
those kinds of cities because I love to go in those neighborhoods and be like, I'm just going to try this random Italian place. And you're like, oh my God, this is the greatest Italian food I've ever had in my life. Oh yeah. I'm going to read this Chinese place. I can't even read the menu. I'm just going to be able to point. And it'll be the best Chinese food I've ever had. Yeah. And that's like, we're trying to figure out where to eat. Of course, things pop up. It's like, oh, five guys and stuff.
01:02:13
Speaker
We're not going to any place we've ever heard of while we're up here. It worked out wonderfully. Philo's little Italian joint in Groton that we went to. F-I-L-H-O-S-M-I-S-A. Seems like a lot more vowels than close.
01:02:35
Speaker
But yeah, we saw a lot of neat stuff. Got myself a new hat. So my goal is I want to keep the sun off my head. And I was torn because I saw this one and I really liked the design of it, but it was a Boston Bruins hat. And I'm not a hockey fan, so I felt like I would be posing, buying said hat. So I just got one that's just got like a plain B and it says mask.
01:03:00
Speaker
Do that. I did not. I almost bought the shirt that said you were a asshole. Um, they embrace metal. Oh yeah. Yep. And at Harvard, there was the wicked smart shirts. Wicked smart. Yep. So yeah, like I said, delightful time. I told my wife, I'd definitely go back to Boston, not Connecticut. Um, I mean, you didn't go to the nicest part of Connecticut either. Okay. So I described.
01:03:29
Speaker
our adventure in Connecticut. And my brother-in-law says, that's 90% of Connecticut. That's why everyone hates Connecticut. See, see, see. He doesn't know he's a Viking. He knows. But my sister nodded along with everything. She's a shorebilly. No, she's not. Is she from the shore? No. Yeah, she's from Virginia Beach. Oh, that's still the shore. Yeah, it's not.
01:03:58
Speaker
But, yeah, it's every time I go up there, I have a lovely time. I guess you are right. Salisbury is not a city. Yeah. Salisbury. Oh, and I found out New Hampshire doesn't have sales tax. Yeah. So New Hampshire, Delaware and Oregon. Yeah. I think although from what my relatives said that New Hampshire is turning into the Florida of New England. I've heard that, too. So.
01:04:26
Speaker
They're like, yeah, we just rent her in there to our tax free shopping. Come on. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they were talking. I was like, you know, oh, how far is it? And they're like, oh, yeah. I mean, a couple of hours we can be on the Cape and everything. That's amazing. Mm hmm. Although my sister terrifies me. And, you know, I hadn't really thought about it much until my wife pointed it out. She's like, yeah, you know, I got another camping trip come up, you know, coming up and Helgi always make sure I call him, you know, in the morning, in the afternoon, the night.
01:04:53
Speaker
she'll go for a week long camping, hiking trip through like the green mountains by herself. Sounds awesome. Except that she could be eaten by a bear. Could be. Yep. She's like, Oh, I keep, I keep my bear spray on me. She goes to be struck, struck by a car, rocking around traffic. Okay. I guess so. Yeah. But yeah. So I get it. You're smart about it. Sounds awesome.
01:05:20
Speaker
Yeah. And he is doing bicycle tours of New England. Oh, can I join it? Yeah. Yeah. I don't know what his website is or whatever. He worked for a company, I guess. But he said, Yeah, I got to go to man tuck it and show a bunch of people around. That sounds awesome. That sounds like a great job. Yeah. And he's a swim coach. Of course he is. Because he did in Iceland was swim. Yeah. So.
01:05:48
Speaker
You're a sucker fireman. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It sounds like a lovely trip. It was. It was. Except for Connecticut. Except for Connecticut. Yes, Boston is awesome place to go. I highly recommend you just go to random cities and try places out. Real cities. Yeah. Yeah. Kind of avoid Baltimore. I'm sorry, Baltimore. You're very much like Salisbury. One thing that
01:06:15
Speaker
Hell, he did say was that he missed like the food truck scene of Baltimore. Sure. That's fair. It's a good way to get the poops. Well, yeah, but he was like, you know, it's it was like every week because they both went to school in Baltimore. That's how they met. You know, it's like every week there was a new set of food trucks. It seemed like so it was, you know, like an ever changing thing. I think that's kind of died out anyways. Really?
01:06:41
Speaker
Yeah, we kind of had the same thing for a little while, but it seems to have kind of died out. A lot of the people that were successful opened up restaurants and the ones that aren't successful are kind of just limping along and you don't want to go right there. I mean, some of these food trucks, it's like, oh yeah, it's what I want to spend $20 for a hot dog and fries. Oh yeah, they're insane. The prices are crazy. Yeah. Yeah.
Food, Culture, and Travel Plans
01:07:05
Speaker
Oh, and definitely Dunkin' Donuts is a huge thing in the New England. Dunkin' Donuts is a cult in New England. But they're like, you can't tell it's a Dunkin' Donuts on the outside. It's not like the Dunkin' Donuts down here. That's the pink and orange and all that. No, no, no. They're like high class. Yeah, yeah. It's a cult. Yeah. We have nothing on them. It's a cult. Wow. Like there was one we went by and it was like gold filigree Dunkin' Donuts. I was like, good lord.
01:07:34
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This is the cathedral of the Immaculate Dunkin. Yeah. Yeah, no, it's Dunkin. They take Dunkin Donuts very seriously up there. Yeah. Yeah. Well, because our Dunkin Donuts, well, at least in Delaware, ours used to be Mr. Donuts. Oh. So like, Mr. Donut used to be like the Delaware PA region, and then Dunkin Donuts bought them out. But up there, Dunkin Donuts are like,
01:07:57
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at least in my experience, they're usually not freestanding buildings. They're usually in something else. Yeah. You know, they're not just like a, it's not a space for a big freestanding Dunkin' Donuts. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Dunkin' Donuts is a cult. Dunkin' Donuts up there. It's like which Dunkin' Go do, the one here or the one across the street? Yeah. Oh, that was the other thing in Boston. We went to the
01:08:23
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Boston Market, not the stupid restaurant, the actual Boston Market. And there was some. I can't remember what it was called, but it was like a. Fair kind of thing or like an open or open air market kind of deal. And both of those. Oh, I told my wife, I was like, I'd be, you know, we'd be here every week buying our groceries and spending way too much money. But this stuff, you know, it's like local
01:08:50
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authentic foods and things. I told her, I say, if we had a little Italy that had a, you know, La Familia Giorgio, I would be 300 pounds. Well, here's the answer. You're about to go to retire? Yeah. Yeah. Mr. Truett. Come in. Giorgio, I'm here for the cannoli again. We got your fan for your sweat.
01:09:14
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Yeah. It's the compromise I make with my wife is because I always wanted to be back in the city because I have to live in the Newark, which is as close as she'll come to a city. Yeah. But I miss that. Like, oh, I'm just going to walk down to the lily and have let's see how it was. Mama Rubino's. But it just sounds good. Oh, my God. The meatballs are the size of your head. That's this place. Yeah, it was like the meatballs and the wedding singer.
01:09:43
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When she's like, hold out your hands, that's the way the meatballs were at this place. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. Because I heard like this. He's got the cup or a table sitting next to this guy's like, well, you mean it when it comes to two meatballs. So I'll take your meatballs and the guy brought out this. He's like, here's your spaghetti and here's your meatballs. It's like, oh, and they had a challenge or they had like five challenges. But the one it was all of them like eat X amount of food in an hour and you get a T-shirt and your name put on the wall or whatever.
01:10:13
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But the one, it was like the lasagna challenge, eat six pounds of lasagna. Holy crap. Yeah. And the other, the others were like eight of those meatballs and two ish pounds of penne or something. It's like, Oh my God, I can't imagine. I bet that, uh, how about that lasagna pretty bang it too. Oh, I'm sure it is. Yeah.
01:10:38
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No, I want to go up there and have for them. Yeah, I was I was generic. I was like, I just wanted to try there. Well, that was the other thing. It was like for their pasta. They had like eight sauces at the top or eight different pastas at the top. And there were at least 21 different sauces. Oh, yeah. And I told Sarah, you come here every week and get a different combination. Mm hmm. I was like, and I would want to try every combination. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
01:11:07
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But yeah, I just got Fettuccine Alfredo and it was amazing. Sounds like my friend needs to take more vacations and go places. Yeah, well, yeah. Places other than Stupid Shore. Well, don't go to Connecticut. Yeah, well, that too. Yeah, my wife was like, oh, you know, maybe next time we could go through Rhode Island. I was like, I don't know about that. Whoa, whoa, whoa, those are my people. I know.
01:11:30
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Those are my words. They're those are my people. My family. Rhode Island could just take over Connecticut and make it better. I'd be fun. Yeah, that's fair. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's like and I understand my wife, you know, she didn't want she saw the rage in me and driving to the airport and then away from the airport and everything. But we didn't save a ton of time flying up there. No, God, no, it's only a
01:11:58
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Six hours. That's probably six hours for you guys. By the time you go to the airport, for you guys, it's two hours of the airport. You wait around the airport for an hour, maybe two. Flu for an hour. Then you fly for an hour. Then it takes you an hour to get out of the airport. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it is. You could have been there. That's what I said. Yeah. Well, my suggestion is take the train. What is this train you speak of?
01:12:27
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What's this machine cars and you go to the train station and you say, I would like one, two, three, four tickets to Boston, please. And they say, okay, you can start drinking on the platform. You can ride the train drinking alcoholic beverages. You can bring snacks, do whatever you want. Oh yeah. That was the flight again. It was get up, come back down. So whatever they're coming around for the service.
01:12:56
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and the leaves. Food or drink. I was like, I'm good. I had a bottle of water. I'm not parched. We've been in the air for 35 minutes of that. And my daughter was like, I would love a ginger ale. She said, water, coffee, tea. Those are what I said. I was like, oh, aren't we a delight? Welcome to the Northeast. This lady was not from the Northeast.
01:13:20
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Anything like eight hours seems like the number for me. If a drive takes eight hours, I'm going to consider flying. That's what I would say. Six hours? There's no time. We drive five hours to Deep Creek. There's no situation in which I'm going to save time flying under six hours.
01:13:44
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Like Florida, I would not drive to Florida because it's a two hour flight versus a 16 hour drive. That seems like pretty easy math for me. Yeah. But New York City, I'm not flying in New York City. No. Boston's only, what, an hour from New York City? Right. Yeah. What the hell are you thinking? Yeah. There were people flying from LaGuardia to Boston. Oh, yeah. So whatever. But yeah, definitely. I'll definitely go back. Good. Everybody seemed to have a good time. So good.
01:14:14
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Youngest didn't kill anybody? No. Oh no. Then that's a win. Oldest looked at it, you know, we're walking around Harvard and was like, this is kind of neat. Oh God. The oldest has a good taste. Yeah. I was like, Oh, is it? Got scholarships. There's a whole Harvard app. Better start working on that old resume and you better have already started submitting your stuff. Yeah. Well, that was one thing. Yeah.
01:14:41
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my family, we had hanging out with them that day. And they're like, Oh, you know, you're looking at colleges while you're up here. And, you know, like, you know, if you want to come up here and look, you know, stay with us and, you know, go wherever. And you're like, you know, if you ever do going to a college up here, you know, you've got always got a place to stay. And, you know, I was like, that's awesome. And my sister was like, well, anywhere but and my wife goes, don't worry. We already said she can't go anywhere in Connecticut. That's right.
01:15:09
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Yukon's a very nice school. Yeah, Yukon, Stanford, you're off the list. Go Huskies. I mean, they have to. No, no, no. Man, it's a harsh world around here. Yeah, Boston University, Harvard. Oh, sure. I mean, Boston University, Harvard, Brown. They're cheap, right? Top change. Yeah, yeah. Get in there for a song. Yeah.
01:15:38
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Oh, yeah. So, yeah, apologies, Connecticut, but you suck. Sorry, Connecticut. I tried. Yeah. WISMR did. Yep. I looked up stuff to try and redeem you. I tried. I really was on your side because I was really rude. We went to this place in mass. It was a interactive video game kind of thing.
01:16:00
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Really put these visors on and it's got like the motion tracking stuff at your head. It was like this big four player game and all. It was super fun. Yeah, that sounds awesome. Yeah, it was like on our way in. It was right before we right before we got to Harvard. It was in some mall. And you guys had an amazing trip. Yeah, it was. We're like, we're going to stop for food anyway. So we stopped there. And yeah, it was like we got like
01:16:26
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Second out of 15 of, you know, their contestants that week or whatever. So nice. Yeah. Yeah. So our name is up there. Yes. Yeah. Put your mark on the world. We did. We did. So yeah. Yeah. And I guess I would like to take trips to other cities at some point. Good. I think our next one's going to be Nashville.
Travel Reflections and Future Plans
01:16:51
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I've never been to Nashville, but I was going to say Portland, Maine. Very nice. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
01:16:56
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Don't go on the winter. No. Well, if you want to ski. I don't know if they can really ski in Portland. You gotta go like outside of Portland. Yeah. But yeah, I don't ski anymore. I did as a kid. Now it just seems like jumping down a mountain to die. Yeah. I haven't skied in 23 years. Um, it's been at least 20 for me. Yeah. At least 20, probably 22 somewhere now. Yeah.
01:17:26
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Oh yeah, I'm sure I'd hurt myself at some point. Yeah, I was a younger man. I could bounce back from injuries. Now I wake up wrong and then my shoulder hurts and my knee hurts. My knee was just hurting for like a week. I don't know why. Yeah, it's like if we did both say when we got home, we're like, oh, it's so nice to sleep on our own bed. I mean, the beds were nice, but it's just not the same. It's not the same.
01:17:54
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Pillows are always wrong. Oh, my God. Their pillows were awful. Yeah, it's always the pillows. Yeah. And our hoity-toity kids like this toilet paper. This is hands down above any toilet paper at my work, so. So who knows? Because there's seven different kinds of toilet paper in the city of Salisbury. There are. Yeah, there are sometimes in the same bathroom.
01:18:21
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Yep, sometimes. Animals. But yeah. That sounds like you had an amazing trip. Glad you're getting out there and trying new things. I'm glad you discovered what cities have to offer. Yeah, I sound like the little country mouse. I saw the big city.
01:18:43
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Well, I think that's a good way to wrap up for the this week. Yeah, it is. Yeah, as always, you know, follow us on Twitter. This will see you at 22. Yeah. Join the discord. Please join the discord. It's our ceramic draft. It's also linked. This will drop before the fourth. It's the eve of the fourth. The eve of the fourth. Isn't that the actual day that it was declared? No. No, that was the second. Second. Yeah.
01:19:11
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This is the 160th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. Mm hmm. I'll be going out there this weekend. I saw it was the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. 250 to 25. Oh, now it's got. Well, it was it's some big thing. I mean, 50 December. Yeah, December of this year, they're having this big 250th.
01:19:34
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celebration or whatever the Boston Tea Party. Yeah, it's got to be 250 because it's 225 would have been. Yeah, yeah, that's got to be 250. Yeah, so go up to Boston in December to celebrate the Tea Party. That doesn't make sense. What? Oh, that's why. That was one thing. Yeah, the little the museum for the Tea Party and everything. We didn't go through it, but we saw like one of the tours and they have the ship
01:20:04
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and they have bundles of quote unquote tea that you throw out and then they reel it back in for the next person to throw. Sure. So yeah, okay, whatever. But yeah, be good to each other. Yeah, be good to each other and go enjoy new experiences.